The Mozartean Players epitomize cutting-edge style, with lively tempos, pertinent, enhancing ornamentation and the rhythmic freedom we had until recent years mistakenly considered appropriate only to music of the Romantic era.

Elegance, precision, and polish were attributes Ravel cultivated in himself and admired in others, and one can’t help feeling the composer would have been very impressed with these performances. (2 CDs)